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Good evening and welcome to the sleepy bookshelf, where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

I'm your host, Elizabeth.

I'm so pleased you have come.

Tonight we are continuing with Wuthering Heights.

But first, close your eyes and take a deep, slow inhale through your nose, and a long

exhale through your mouth.

Imagine you are lying on a forest floor.

Roots growing out of the ground and wrapping around you snugly and securely,

steady and grounding.

With every exhale, those roots grow deeper, and as they do, they carry away the weight of the day.

The buzz of thought, the ache of effort.

Just giving you a gentle cuddle from the forest.

Let your muscles soften and your breath slow, breathing with the woods your body heavy and supported safe steady and still

the day after the funeral while Nellie nursed the new baby, the door burst open to Isabella,

wet and shivering from the snowstorm outside.

She explained how she had run away from Wuthering Heights and needed a carriage to take her on to

Gimmerton. Nellie arranged for dry clothes, a bag to be packed with some necessary items,

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